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Black it out – Meeting the bar

A new year, and being here at Meeting the bar I thought about doing the sestina, or maybe a some anapests, or maybe another complicated poetic device… but.. we need to relax and have some fun, many of us have rested during the holidays.

Blackout poetry – so bring out thick black pens and take an old book. Look for the hidden poetry in those words.

Select a book-page

Print it out or and black out everything you don’t want.

Copy down the text (keeping the order

Add line-breaks and or punctuation marks as you want

If you can, add an image of your black-out book page.

To help you, I have added a few book-pages below.

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Come join the fun and write your own poem, and when you are ready link up with us.

Enter a link directly to your poem and your name by clicking Mr Linky below

There you will find links to other poets, and more will join during the next 33 hours

Read and comment on other poet’s work, we all go here to have our poems read

I don’t know whether to cheer or cry! My antipathy to found poetry is well-known, but I will always have a try at a challenge. The problem is, my printer is languishing in the computer hospital, having mashed and jammed some inferior paper which refuses to come out. I’ll do what I can.

Hey Viv, I discovered this wonderful thing I can do in Word. There is a thing in the menu called shading. I chose to do it in black., lol. It enabled me t work on my computer, which is good as my printer is out of action at the moment too.

I used a poem of mine which wasn’t working to my satisfaction. I didn’t greatly improve it!

bjorn…this was fun…i have done them before…and i am rather fascinated by some that the guy does with the NY times….but it took me a bit to get into it when i was doing it…once i did one, the second came easier….

A challenge for me as well Bjorn ~ But I find that the voice of the poets come through anyway as we do tend to choose the words that we like ~ There is also a blackout poetry for newspapers or news articles when I was checking on this topic ~ Fascinating what we can “find” in the page or book ~

Oh, this looks like great fun! I am late BUT hope to make the deadline and squuueeeeeeeeeze right in. I have so many books ! Hubby IS on vacation and has been keeping me busy, but …16 hours left so here’s hoping!